Echinodorus trialatus

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Echinodorus trialatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plant
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Echinodorus
Species: E. trialatus
Binomial name
Echinodorus trialatus
Fassett in Rhodora 57, 179, 1955

In Rataj's taxonomy E. trialatus is in Section Paniculati, Subgenus Echinodorus


[edit] Description

Leaves with blades about as long as the winged petioles and tapering into them, lomg tapered at the tip, with the upper pair of veins parallel to the midrib and leaving it at some distance from the base, 30 - 45 cm long. Blades longly oval, on both ends regularly narrowed, or lanceolate with 3 - 5 veins, without pellucid markings, 17 - 25 cm long x 2.5 - 5 cm wide.

Stem erect, along the whole length distinctly alate (3 - winged), 30 - 70 cm long. Inflorescence usually racemose, rarely branched in the lower whorl, having 6 - 13 whorls. Bracts longer than the pedicels with flowers, 1.5 - 2 cm long having 19 - 21 distinct ribs. Flowers sessile or subsessile on pedicels 2 - 4 mm long. Sepals about 5 mm long, with usually 18 ribs, corolla white. Aggregate fruit globular, 5 - 7 mm in diameter. Stamens usually 18, anthers 1.5 mm long, as long as the filaments. Achenes 2.5 - 3 mm long x 1 - 1.2mm wide, distinctly ribbed only in the lower part of the body, the upper third without ribs, lateral glands absent.

[edit] Distribution

Panama, Colombia & Venezuela normally growing submersed.


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